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[Discuss] ZFS for an Encrypted External Disk: My Experience and Notes

Subject: [Discuss] ZFS for an Encrypted External Disk: My Experience and Notes
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:15:28 -0400
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On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 08:55:49 -0400
markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:

> Be that as it may, its been my experience (anecdotal) that the Linux
> USB storage stack has issues and tends to go offline under highly
> concurrent heavy load. This faults the drive and fails ZFS, YMMV

I have been running backups to ZFS on USB storage for years. Some zfs
send/receive with data copies=2, some rsync with mirrored USB
drives. Never experienced any problems of this sort.

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